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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. HOUSEKEEPING Before we dive into #RubioGlitch, please allow for some housekeeping. — Orlando-Rising.com — A hyper-local website about the hyper-growing Central Florida region is soft-launching today. With former Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers as its tent-pole reporter, @OrlRising aims to do to Orlando and Orange and Seminole County politics what SaintPetersBlog has clearly accomplished in the…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. DEM DEBATE TAKEAWAYS: HILLARY, BERNIE MIX IT UP OVER WALL STREET For months, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have campaigned against each other with a velvet touch, eager to distinguish their race for the Democratic presidential nomination from the combative contest taking place in the Republican primary. No more. The pair tangled again and again…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, Jim Rosica, and material from the Associated Press. THE WINNOWING (IT’S NOT A M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN MOVIE) To hear exiting presidential primary candidates tell it, their campaigns never die. They are just suspended. Make no mistake. When they suspend a campaign, as Rand Paul did Wednesday and Mike Huckabee and Martin O’Malley did right after the Iowa caucuses, it’s not to take a break…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. IOWA SHOWS POLLING IS SLIPPERY BUSINESS, GETTING MORE SO Iowa’s snow-covered fields and friendly villages were fraught with danger for pollsters, who had a tough time pinning down the state’s fickle electorate. Most poll-takers took it on the chin when Donald Trump‘s lead in pre-election polls ended with a Ted Cruz victory at Monday’s caucuses. Marco Rubio‘s strong third-place…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. IOWA TAKEAWAYS – DONALD TRUMP CAN’T MEET HYPE, HILLARY CLINTON UNDERWHELMS — Donald Trump failed to live up to his own hype and finished second to Ted Cruz, but it was a late surge from Marco Rubio that may wind up the as the biggest surprise of the Iowa caucuses. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders…

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Sunburn — The definitive morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, Jim Rosica, and Scott Powers. KEEP THIS IN MIND: While the political world is focused on Iowa and New Hampshire, tens of thousands of ballots were mailed Friday to military and overseas voters by Florida’s elections supervisors. TURNOUT IS THE NAME OF THE GAME IN TONIGHT’S IOWA CAUCUSES Democrat Bernie Sanders says he’s ready to stun the…

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Sunburn – The definitive morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. OH, WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN… For the Republican candidates for president, it was a glimpse of what could have been. Front-runner Donald Trump‘s boycott of the final debate before the Iowa caucuses created space for his rivals to delve more deeply into their differences on immigration, foreign policy and their approach to governing. And…

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